Social stigma society needs to get over?

[MamaFrankie]

There are indeed grey asexual areas, Dee. For instance, I am asexual but have a celebrity crush.

 

[Crys]

That married couples can't be happy and live fine without children. I don't know why other people feel it is necessary or any of their business to give an opinion on what other people decide to do. Mind your own damn business.

 

[MrDawn]

That day, the wife of a friend of mine came in and started telling me all about the current drama in their lives.... while I was running assorted vegetation through a food processor for the sauce. She never stopped talking. Lots of celery, mushrooms, green peppers, onions, carrots... cut and shredded... and she was still talking. I have no idea what she was going on about, but the noise didn't phase her. Finally, she used up all the air in the kitchen and went off to annoy the guy that was setting up the tables in the gym.

What were you cooking?

 

[DrLeftover]

What were you cooking?

Meatloaf.

The veggies were sautéed in butter and dried out slightly, then mixed with three kinds of ground meat (beef, pork, turkey) and eggs, with NO 'extender' like bread crumbs or cornmeal or anything like that, made into loaves, and baked low and slow until done.

We had over 50 people that night, and had enough to send home with those that needed it, and none went into the trash.

 

[~ True Legend ~]

That married couples can't be happy and live fine without children. I don't know why other people feel it is necessary or any of their business to give an opinion on what other people decide to do. Mind your own damn business.

Oh gosh. My so called friend in primary school would pinch me every time she disagreed with me.
I said I wasn't interested in kids and she said that's rude as we should all love kids. She pinched me.
My mum is vegetarian Hindu whereas I'm agnostic and that so called friend pinched me bc she was saying i should respect my parents by following the same religion. She pinched me bc i eat meat which makes no sense bc she eats meat and is Hindu! Ugh! What's wrong with kids? Honestly I think adults need to teach kids to be open minded and respecful rather than forcing beliefs on them

 

[Crys]

Oh gosh. My so called friend in primary school would pinch me every time she disagreed with me.
I said I wasn't interested in kids and she said that's rude as we should all love kids. She pinched me.
My mum is vegetarian Hindu whereas I'm agnostic and that so called friend pinched me bc she was saying i should respect my parents by following the same religion. She pinched me bc i eat meat which makes no sense bc she eats meat and is Hindu! Ugh! What's wrong with kids? Honestly I think adults need to teach kids to be open minded and respecful rather than forcing beliefs on them

Yeah, I would have told her to stop pinching me. That's just as annoying as her feeling the need to do it in the first place of she disagreed. You can have disagreements naturally but there's no need to put your hands on someone. You can also love children but not want them. I also think you can be anything you desire to be if it makes you happy and it's really no one's business so long as you're not setting out to be offensive to anyone (be a racist, etc). Some people should be but unfortunately they're not.

 

[passenger]

That married couples can't be happy and live fine without children. I don't know why other people feel it is necessary or any of their business to give an opinion on what other people decide to do. Mind your own damn business.

My daughter and her boyfriend would say that if they ever felt pulled in by the urge to have kids they would shop at "Rent-a-Kid" so that they could return 'said' kid.

 

[MrDawn]

Meatloaf.

I love meatloaf, it's one of my favorites meals. I rarely get to eat it now a days. My family doesn't cook it and I don't know of any restaurant in town that serves it.

 

[~ True Legend ~]

Yeah, I would have told her to stop pinching me. That's just as annoying as her feeling the need to do it in the first place of she disagreed. You can have disagreements naturally but there's no need to put your hands on someone. You can also love children but not want them. I also think you can be anything you desire to be if it makes you happy and it's really no one's business so long as you're not setting out to be offensive to anyone (be a racist, etc). Some people should be but unfortunately they're not.

Yeah I feel it’s a learned behaviour though - they think either you obey your parents or you’re a bad person assuming the right to bully you into “being a better person”. Sorry but the world doesn’t work that way! Feel free to not be my friend (though I think that’s an over-reaction) but you have no right to impose your beliefs on me as we can’t change others.

That’s the thing, she just thinks she only she can be right so telling her wouldn’t help. Even worse the teacher was teaching us to be assertive and refused to get involved to teach us to grow up to be assertive rather than involving others all the time. In this scenario though I do feel that when it’s taking such a toll on one’s mental health and when someone even goes as far as physical violence to get what they want or intimidate one or for any other reason, the teacher should step in and say “no that’s unacceptable” and impose consequences.

Teaching someone to be a grown up also means teaching someone that sometimes complaining and escalation is the appropriate way to handle the matter. Imagine if this happened at work. You’d expect any decent manager to take allegations of bullying seriously, not least when one resorts to violence no matter how mild, right?

Note I only say this as we were 10 year olds at the time. As adults that’d be unacceptable and harassment I would not hesitate to complain over.